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C.E. Trueman

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Children's Books, Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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I have been writing creatively since the age of seven, particularly poetry, some of which has been successful in competitions and appeared in various mixed anthologies.

The first poems I had published were in the National Poetry Foundation's publication Pause - Churchyard Children in 1993 and She Shore in 1994.

I have since gone on to publish others and won or been commended in various competitions, including first prize in the 2005 Winchester Annual Writers' Conference Poetry competition: Reaching Out sponsored by Penguin Books for Beyond the Sense of Road.

As a child, I invented several children's storybook characters which I would love to develop as well as compiling my own anthology of poetry.

In January 2007 my first children's novel Th I have been writing creatively since the age of seven, particularly poetry, some of which has been successful in competitions and appeared in various mixed anthologies.

The first poems I had published were in the National Poetry Foundation's publication Pause - Churchyard Children in 1993 and She Shore in 1994.

I have since gone on to publish others and won or been commended in various competitions, including first prize in the 2005 Winchester Annual Writers' Conference Poetry competition: Reaching Out sponsored by Penguin Books for Beyond the Sense of Road.

As a child, I invented several children's storybook characters which I would love to develop as well as compiling my own anthology of poetry.

In January 2007 my first children's novel The Bone Cradle was published which has been looked at by 20th Century Fox. The sequel Grey Amber has just been published and has been available since January 2010 on both Amazon UK and Amazon US as well as other bookselling websites. The first chapter of this novel won second prize at the 2007 Winchester Writers' Conference Writing for Children competition. I am planning to write the third and final book in the trilogy shortly.

Also on the back burner is a children's book based around the Great War, the first chapter of which was Highly Commended in the 2005 Winchester Annual Writers' Conference competition for the first chapter of a children's novel for over 12's sponsored by Little Tiger Press.

I have read some of my poetry: at my local library, at The Crypt in London's Islington (which does valuable work in supporting the homeless), with an open poetry group in Bedford and in 2006 at a charity function in the area where I now live.

I have also hosted creative writing workshops including a poetry workshop for children at my village school who subsequently did me the honour of naming one of their tables after me. I have been invited back several times to give talks and book signings at a local private girls school and this year I also visited a local school for children with dyslexia and other learning difficulties to do a workshops with three classes during Book Week.

Features include the Writers Promote page in Writers Forum magazine, several times in the local newspaper: The Biggleswade Chronicle, a snippet in The Sun, book reviews in the Beds on Sunday, The Advertiser newspaper and the Chronicle, a two page spread in Discover Bedfordshire magazine and a feature in The Comet newspaper.

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